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When Behind Harem Walls was finally published in 1960, it came out only in England, in a hardbound edition. Despite the wide circulation of the 1958 A.P. feature, the book proved to be a hard sell. McIntosh & Otis, Jane’s New York agent, attempted to place the book in the United States, but could find a home for it only with Alvin Redman of London, as part of its travel series that included books on Nepal, Red China, Ghana, and Mexico.1 Jane and Ken changed agents in 1959, and her new agent, August Lenniger, sent it out to more than a dozen U.S. publishers between November 1959 and February 1960.2 Rejections came back from Crown Publishers, Orion Press, Longmans Green & Co., Criterion Books, William Morrow, Hastings Books, Doubleday, W.W. Norton, Rand McNally, Fleet, and just about every major paperback book publisher, including Gold Medal, Dell, Pocket Books, Ace, Ballantine, and Hillman.
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See, for example, Jane Dolinger, “They Forced Me to Belly Dance on the Sahara,” Man’s Action 1.11 (November 1959): 18–20, 63.
Haleh Afshar, “Age, Gender and Slavery in and Out of the Persian Harem: A Different Story,” Ethnic and Racial Studies 32.5 (September 2000): 914.
Jane Dolinger, “His and Her Ski Slopes,” Modern Man 8.2–86 (August 1958): 18–21, 46.
See, for example, Jane Dolinger, “Latest Amazing Search for Inca Treasure,” Sir 15.12 (April 1959): 10–13, 40–41. This article combines portions of The Head with the Long Yellow Hair with the Muzo trip, as if it were one expedition.
Also, see Jane Dolinger, “I Faced the Girl-Crazy Raiders of the Amazon,” Man’s Adventure 3.1 (January 1960): 40–41, 44–45. This story uses photos of the Yumbo Indians to illustrate a fictional Cashinahua raid for females.
See, for example, Thomas C. Reeves, A Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy (New York: Free Press, 1991), 115, 241–242.
Most of this account is taken from Jane’s article on her experience: Jane Dolinger, “I Posed for Guayasamín Nuden,” Figure Quarterly 27 (Winter 1959): 4–9, 68.
There is one piece of evidence that suggests another visitor to the studio, Sergio Huneeus, Chilean ambassador to Ecuador; see Sergio Huneeus, as told to Ken Krippene, “Making of a Masterpiece,” Gent 5.1 (October 1960): 35–38.
Milt Gentry, “The Story of Jane Dolinger,” Modern Man 13.1 (July 1963): 52.
While in Miami, Jane found time to research and write the story of Warren Jewell, a Miami artist specializing in portraits of burlesque stars; see Jane Dolinger, “Modern Toulouse Lautrec,” Modern Man 11.8 (February 1962): 8–10.
Jane Dolinger, “I Learned the Deadly Secrets of the Mau Mau,” Modern Man 12.5 (November 1962): 8–10, 54–56.
Jane Dolinger, “Café of Intrigue,” Modern Man 12.7 (January 1963): 13–15, 57.
Jane Dolinger, “Swiss Cheesecake on Ice,” Modern Man 12.12 (June 1963): 48–53. One photograph shows Jane at the gaming tables in a resort casino.
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Abbott, L. (2010). Woman at Work: Traveler, Socialite, Writer, Model. In: Jane Dolinger. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230111837_8
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